Saturday, November 22, 2008

We had a houseful of people last night and I was thrilled that Christine emailed me earlier in the week with her famous crab dip recipe. I changed a few things, but this is definitely her recipe. Thank you, Christine!

I used a 4 quart crockpot. This feeds 20 people as an appetizer, or one cranky woman as a meal.

Sort through the crab and make sure that there aren't any shells.

Cube the cream cheese and put it into your crockpot. Plug it in and turn to high to begin melting the cream cheese. Add the buffalo wing sauce (or salsa), milk, and the drained can of Rotel.

Put in the crab, and stir gingerly to combine.Cover and cook on low for 2-3 hours, stirring every 20 to 30 minutes, or on high for no more than 2 hours, stirring often.

Serve with your favorite crackers, cubed bread, or celery sticks.If you plan on serving out of the crockpot, you can "pretty it up" by inserting slices of lemon all the way around the edge of the dip in the crock.

You are my hero!!!!I can't believe I am just finding you now in November and NOT in January of '08!!! Boo-hoo. I, too, love my crockpot. There are just a few recipes I use it for, however. After finding you via a search for applesauce in the crock, I will take the voyage into a lot more fun cooking with my crockpot. Easy and delicious. Yum. Thanks so much,Cyndy

I'm so glad you liked it! I do have to give credit to my mother, who passed on this recipe to me when I was a newlywed. I wasn't such a great cook then, so I think my husband had it for dinner approximately 30 times our first year of marriage. And he didn't complain one bit.

I am cracking up at the cranky woman comment!!this looks great--I have the chicken version just about scraped clean upstairs right now since my husband's friends are over! He would love the crab version. Great suggestion!

Oh, sad me. At the PTA meeting last night, the janitor dropped and broke my CrockPot. Be proud, I was gracious and declined when she offered to replace it. "Accidents happen." My children were frozen and ready to flee; they know how much I love my Crock, even though it's old and not a cool one. (Steph, it looks, LOOKED, like your old light blue one) The good news is, guess what's going on my Christmas list?!? The bad news is, Christmas is very far away, with lots of cooking between now and then. Woe is me!

Steph: Thought of you this morning when browsing through the Sunday paper. Target has a special three crockpot thingy on sale. Hard to describe. It's looks like three crockpots surrounded by stainless steel - you'll have to look at the ad to see it.

Many years ago I was given a 3 ingredient crab dip recipe, easy enough to remember: 1lb crab, 1lb salsa, 1 lb cream cheese. You pick the heat. We aren't seafood eaters in my house, so we make crabless Crab Dip. Cooking doesn't get easier than a 2 ingredient recipe! Yours sounds amazing!